4129 – system includes

Bug 4129 - system includes

Summary: system includes

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Michael Cohen (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-06-25 03:59 UTC by Peter Simons
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Peter Simons 2002-06-25 03:59:57 UTC

I noticed that the install process install the kernel includes in /usr/include
even though I have installed the kernel's sources. Shouldn't
/usr/include/(linux,asm,scsi) be symlinks to
/usr/src/linux/include/(linux,asm,scsi) then? Otherwise programs get build with
a different version of the include files than kernel version.

Comment 1 Michael Cohen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-16 22:11:03 UTC

programs shouldn't use kernel includes; they should use last major version 
includes.. there was a huge flame about this on the linux kernel mailing list 
a few months back.